305 Seminary St., Saluda, North Carolina. County/parish: Polk.
Added to the National Register of Historic Places September 15, 2005. NRIS 05001033.
Ryder Hall, also known as the Mountain Manor Hotel and Cloud Hotel, is a historic hotel located at Saluda, Polk County, North Carolina. It was built in 1909, as a girls' dormitory for the Saluda Seminary that operated until 1922. It is a 2+1⁄2-story, "H"-plan, Colonial Revival style frame building sheathed in weatherboard. It has a gambrel roof with shed-roof dormers and features full-width one-story shed roof porches on the front and rear elevations. It housed a public school until 1927, then was converted to a hotel. It was converted to a single-family dwelling after 1992.
It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2005.
(read more...)National Park Service documentation: https://catalog.archives.gov/id/47721850